Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upbraided President Emmanuel Macron in a letter seen by AFP on Tuesday, blaming the French leader's move to recognise a Palestinian state for fuelling antisemitism.

French President Emmanuel Macron had declared last month that France would formally recognise a Palestinian state during the UNGA session in September.

"It rewards Hamas terror, hardens Hamas’s refusal to free the hostages, emboldens those who menace French Jews, and encourages the Jew-hatred now stalking your streets."

The Israeli PM’s expansionist rhetoric has shaken the Arab world, with a former top UAE adviser calling him ‘no less dangerous than Hitler’.

France on Tuesday strongly dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that President Emmanuel Macron was fueling antisemitism,

Netanyahu is on trial in three cases, on charges of fraud, bribery, and breach of trust. He has pleaded not guilty to all three, in the storm of a case that began in 2020.

An Arab Israeli college student suspected of spying for Iran told Shin Bet investigators that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, called him a “terrorist” after he shared his name during a customer service call for the HOT Mobile phone company last year, according to notes from the interrogation obtained by The Times of Israel.

A weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia’s Jews,” read a post on the official X account of Netanyahu’s office